WASHINGTON (AP) — Time moves a tad faster on the moon. Now an international group of astronomers has joined calls to give the moon its own clock so that future space missions can keep track of ...

The moon getting its own “time zone” is critical to future space exploration. Shutterstock / Dima Zel Lunar Coordinate Time would also play a role in navigating space and the moon, added NIST ...

Time moves faster on the moon, and now we're one step closer to getting a lunar time zone to keep track of it. ... US House space committee wants a standard lunar clock. Story by John Loeffler • 2h.

NASA is working on discovering exactly what time it is on the moon by creating a standardized time zone. The space agency hopes to then use that standard elsewhere in the solar system.

They would require a standard moon time relative to Earth in order to compensate for the changes in the way that time flows faster there due to the differences in gravity.

Timekeeping on the Moon is a trickier problem than you might think.. It's not just the fact that it doesn't have a diurnal cycle like Earth does — or that one "day" on the Moon is equal to about ...

Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan, who represents Virginia's District 4, introduced H.R. 8837, the Celestial Time Standardization Act.

Time moves faster on the moon, and now we're one step closer to getting a lunar time zone to keep track of it.